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J. B. Jackson

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[Wikipedia] John Brinckerhoff "Brinck" Jackson was a writer, publisher, instructor, and sketch artist in landscape design. Herbert Muschamp, architecture critic of the New York Times, stated that J. B. Jackson was "America's greatest living writer on the forces that have shaped the land this nation occupies." H

Quotes by J. B. Jackson

It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.

Giving

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Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection…

Death

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Landscape is history made visible.

History

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The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind…

Bicycle

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The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of…

Common

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